Gun laws won't work, just like drug laws don't

What makes some people think that passing new gun laws will stop anything?

All one has to do is look at the failed drug war in this country.

With the passing of the Harrison Narcotics Act in 1914, this country started a drug war that is now 99 years old. To date, it hasn't won one battle in this war despite passing tougher and tougher laws each year. In recent years, the government has arrested more than 800,000 people annually just for marijuana offenses.

Yet if you go to YouTube, and type in marijuana, there are countless videos of people showing you their home gardens. If you type marijuana in your search engine, there are numerous websites dedicated to growing marijuana, and making and using other drugs.

Passing tough laws against drugs while costing the taxpayers billions a year apparently hasn't stopped anyone, and has actually increased violent crime as drug dealers fight over territory, just like the bootleggers did during Prohibition. People seem to have forgotten that they used to have machine-gun battles in cities in this country during Prohibition.

We already have a huge problem of illegal gun trading along our Mexican border. All I can see tougher laws doing is to spread that trade across the nation.

Edward H. Decker

Manchester

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